Fruits and Votes

I am please to announce the publication of this volume, in which there is a chapter from my NIFA-funded project. The order of names shows accurately that I was not the main driver of this chapter, but I am honored to have contributed what I did, and to be in such a distinguished collection. Se...

On the MIT Election Data Science Lab webpage, Jesse Clark has a summary of some recent research on the effects of ranked-choice voting in Maine. The summary includes research asking how RCV impacts voters and campaign behavior. Regarding voters, it ...

The blog, Another Spectrum, has been running a series of posts in early August about the mixed-member proportional (MMP) electoral system in New Zealand. The

The OSCE report [PDF] on the 2017 election in Albania says “Seats are distributed according to a combination of d’Hondt [sic] and Sainte-Laguë methods.”

It is, of course, not clear what that means.

This post is authored by Leonardo Carella, not by me.

On 16 July the Italian Chamber of Deputies approved a new electoral law; the bill now moves to the Senate, where it is likely to pass – though possibly with some amendments. Nicknamed the “Stabilicum” by the right-...